Dr Jun Hou
Senior Lecturer in International Business
Eastern Gateway 110
- Email: jun.hou@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268007
- Global Management
- Brunel Business School
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
Dr Jun Hou is a Senior Lecturer at Brunel Business School. Prior to Brunel, Jun was previously a senior lecturer at the University of Lincoln and a research officer at the University of Oxford. He participated in multiple international research projects such as Diffusion of Innovation in Low-Income countries (DILIC, funded by ESRC-DFID) and Multinational Enterprises and Global Development (MNEmerge, EU FP7).
Jun has also worked in several international organisations including the Overseas Development Institute, London (ODI) and The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). At ODI, he worked on several research projects sponsored by the Department for International Development (UK government), for example 'Support Economic Transformation (SET)' and 'The Shift of Manufacturing Employment in China (Link)'.
Qualifications
PhD in Economics of Technological Change and Innovation Policy, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
MSc in Economics of Development, ISS Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BSc in Agricultural Economics
Responsibility
Programme Lead for MSc International Business and Sustainability
Newest selected publications
Fu, X., Fu, XM., Ghauri, P. and Hou, J. (2022) 'International collaboration and innovation: Evidence from a leading Chinese multinational enterprise'. Journal of World Business, 57 (4). pp. 1 - 14. ISSN: 1090-9516 Open Access Link
Fu, X. and Hou, J. (2021) 'Foreign Technology Transfers in China', in Fu, X., McKern, B. and Chen, J. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of China Innovation. Oxford : Oxford University Press. pp. 415 - 440. ISBN 10: 0-19-090056-3. ISBN 13: 978-0-19-090053-3.
Hou, J., Fu, X. and Mohnen, P. (2021) 'The Impact of China–Africa Trade on the Productivity of African Firms: Evidence from Ghana'. European Journal of Development Research, 34 (2). pp. 869 - 896. ISSN: 0957-8811 Open Access Link
Fu, X., Emes, D. and Hou, J. (2021) 'Multinational enterprises and structural transformation in emerging and developing countries: A survey of the literature'. International Business Review, 30 (2). pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 0969-5931 Open Access Link
Hou, J. and Fu, X. (2020) 'ICT Adoption and Innovation in Ghana', in Fu, X. (ed.) Innovation under the Radar The Nature and Sources of Innovation in Africa. Cambridge University Press. pp. 267 - 283. ISBN 10: 1107183103. ISBN 13: 9781107183100.